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Even the roaches are boycotting the Detroiter!! THAT is REALLY saying something!! Only lot lizards and drug dealers visit there now. A step DOWN from roaches!! :eek:

We too had a GREAT time meeting new people and putting faces to names!! We enjoyed seeing old, long time friends again. Expo is SO COOL!!

Chocolate covered (unshelled, that is the expensive kind (old movie quote)) Don't like EOBR's? Thank the DOT and a government that just assumes that all drivers log illegal. Write your congressman, for what little good that would do.

Nope, not this time. We were busy spending ANOTHER night at the Cambria Suites in Green. :( Great motel but we would have rather been working. We will be back in service Monday. We do VERY little work in Michigan. Everyone knows that FDCC makes sure to route you away from your house!! :p Just...

I mentioned the dip in retail sales in post #10. So there!! :p

Part of a normal business cycle made worse by government stupidity and corruption. Other than that................. :eek: Nothing really all that new. It has just been a while since times were tough. Many people younger than us have never seen this. You and I have been through it before. People...

Sometimes there is a "natural" slowdown this time of year hopefully that is all it is. Retail sales have dropped for the last two months as well. With any luck things will bounce back fast. I REALLY hope that this is not the beginning of the second and maybe deeper leg of the recession. Tax...

I am not so sure. Durable goods orders have dropped for the last two months. If business was moving forward they would be up. I give the economy a "mixed review" at this time and it seems to be trending down. WHY? If I knew that I would not be expediting. Durable Goods Orders Fall While...

Well gee, Turtle, just about every laid off auto worker can DRIVE an expedited cargo van. That does not mean that they can make a go of it as a business. Driving a cargo van, expedited or not, is not that difficult. :p Driving it in a safe, competent manner is another story as well.

LOL!!! Well I guess not unless you were there!! :D

Of course it is a double edged sword. Most things in life are. The brand will have little to keep me if I find a "better life" elsewhere. For now, this is working ok. The kinds of loads I was referring too would not be brokered out and FDCC has NO problem finding trucks for those loads.

Dave, while "brand" might not be as important as is it in retail it is somewhat important to us. Many of the customers that we deal with tell us that they call FedEx Custom Critical mainly because of the FedEx reputation. I know that we have had loads due to that. FDCC is NOT the only game in...

Gold is pretty. It does have a few REAL uses besides watches and earrings but not all that many. I would think that a good supply of shotgun and .22 ammunition would do me better for providing food for my wife and myself than a bunch of soft shinny metal would. Add to that several boxes of fish...

I would LOVE to see some of these "so-called" "new" jobs. We still have a couple of hundred thousand new layoffs every week. Who knows how many have gone off of the unemployment roles onto welfare. The Unemployment rate does not reflect that number. To me a "new" job can only happen when ALL of...

Glad to see it, hope that these stick around for a bit.

No, I talked with people in the intell business. Got it from the horses mouth so to speak. You know, REAL PEOPLE!! Working the the business right now. One in operations, one in school at this time. The problem with ALL of these things is that there are often far more sides to the story than is...

At FedEx in Green, OH.

You lost me here. What are you talking about? :confused:

We finished up our second round of TVAL testing yesterday. All went well this time. We went straight home. I have been having a ground problem that was expanding so we took it into a shop for repairs. It took them a couple of hours to find it, at least it is fixed. Can't have the DOT getting all...

We finish up our TVAL testing (round two) about noon today. Headed for the house :( to get some work done. We have lights going out. Can't afford problems with DOT. We had really wanted to be back in service by now. A lost week. :( Maybe the weather will hold and I can get my AirTabs on! That...